Research

What is the likelihood of a patient developing cancer again after having a tumour removed? This is the question that experts in medicine and medical informatics at FAU aim to find answers to in a new research project.

Gels are found in wide range of products that we use on a day-to-day basis. But what gives gels their solid properties? Researchers have now shown that the answer is directed chains of particles in their network-like structure.

Dr. Huynh Van Luong (Vietnam) is involved in research related to the field of image and video coding and processing. As a Humboldt Fellow at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing at FAU, he is developing a distributed sensing framework to deal with high-dimensional data for multi-view object recognition and tracking toward mobile augmented reality.

FAU researchers have discovered a mechanism that stops chronic inflammation.

Another FAU researcher has succeeded in securing funding from the European Union amid tough competition. Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Steinrück, Chair of Physical Chemistry II, has been awarded one of the sought-after ERC Advanced Grants worth 2.5 million euros.

Dr. Duo Xu focuses his research interests on turbulent flows and transition to turbulence in shear flows using state-of-the-art experimental and numerical research tools. Since August 2014, he has been a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chair of Fluid Mechanics (FAU) studying the transition to turbulence in pulsation pipe flows in the group led by Prof. M. Avila (FAU) in collaboration with Prof. B. Hof (IST Austria).

Dr. Liang Zhang got the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship to carry out his postdoctoral research at FAU under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Steinrück at the Chair of Physical Chemistry II. At FAU, his research is mainly about “surface science with porphyrins”.

An international team of researchers has shown for the first time that depression can be effectively prevented through online training.

The German government is investing approximately 40 million euros in IZNF, a new interdisciplinary centre for nanostructured films. Construction of the new centre, which will be located on the Southern Campus in Erlangen, is expected to be completed by the end of 2018.

In collaboration with colleagues at Stanford University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, FAU researchers have developed a new type of technology that allows the facial gestures and lip movements of one person to be transferred onto the video image of another – in real time.